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Tumblr is better than Twitter. Fact.

September 16, 2009, 7:42 am

I've been giving Twitter a hard time for ages now. It's well documented that it is insecure (and I know for a fact that problems that got massive coverage a couple of weeks ago are still going strong)...

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Broadband Tax. A predictable “no!” from me.

September 28, 2009, 10:42 pm

My boss blogged approvingly about the proposed broadband tax. Predictably (for those who know me) I think the idea sucks. Continue reading →

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Will iPhone Apps replace the desktop… and the web?

October 8, 2009, 4:10 am

I'm sure I'm late to this whole thing (I blog once a week - in my underpants - and I really don't know shit about technology) but having just had Windows 7 installed, I've just noticed that the...

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Daily Telegraph Photoshop Fake. Again.

October 29, 2009, 4:34 am

Oh dear. Despite it being known last year that an iconic image of Iranian missiles rising from the desert had been Photoshopped to show more missiles than were actually there, they’ve repeated the...

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The New Twitter vs. Google

September 15, 2010, 10:47 pm

Google has, for most of us, been the only way to find information on the internet for the best part of a decade. Their model is simple, even if the technology isn’t: Index every page on the internet...

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The endgame cometh: Portugal on the brink of a bailout

January 10, 2011, 5:23 am

Gosh. Portugal’s in trouble? Who knew? Well anyone with eyes and brain. Even me – and I’m shit thick – knew this was coming. The now-familiar death dance has begun: “no pressure… no-one’s talking about...

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Greek Debt Default: Here Comes the Tidal Wave….

June 16, 2011, 3:43 am

So Greece is, finally, hitting the buffers. Interest rates on money loaned to the Greeks is now 30%, which basically means no-one will lend to them. The proposed “bailout” (another trifling matter of...

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Europe in Flames?

November 4, 2011, 3:19 am

If, as seems likely, the French and Germans get their way, Papandreou will be history soon. Who will replace him? Someone who is prepared to kowtow to the EU line and sign Greece up to decades of...

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We trading something for nothing.

March 15, 2012, 10:18 pm

Recently, my Kindle bit the dust. I’d been getting quite into the Kindle thing – reading it in the bath… downloading books on an ad-hoc basis… using it to browse the web. There is a remorseless logic...

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Stood on the Precipice

May 16, 2012, 4:09 pm

When we will fall off? Maybe tomorrow. Events are moving so fast now that my previous blog post – drafted on Monday night but not published ’til just now – is already outdated. People have started...

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5 reasons that newspapers will die

June 30, 2009, 1:06 am

I was reading a post over on Daggle about newspapers bleating about their dying business model. It reminded me of some special-interest pleading from the hateful ideologue Polly Toynbee in the...

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